Israel
The Slumdog Millionaire stars take their on-screen romance off-screen, and into the public eye.
Ever since their hit movie was released, there have been rumors about a supposed off-screen romance. For months, gossip rags have accused her of having a secret husband and him of being a wife-stealer. Even their co-star Anil Kapoor has claimed that the two share a genuine sense of chemistry. And yet, when asked outright by interviewers on the Academy Awards red carpet (and elsewhere) if they were an item, Freida Pinto and Dev Patel denied everything.
Well, it seems that the time for denials is over. Because, as was the case with Angelina and Brad, actions are … Read More
The Rabbinate has made it pretty tough for foreign-born Jews to get married.
The New York Times has a magazine that runs on Sundays. Essentially, the magazine is where all of the stories that couldn’t be squeezed into the regular newspaper because of length. Or they’re in the weekend magazine because of tradition like the lamentable Ethicist or William Safire’s ode to the English language. Or they are pitch and catch interviews or what’s going on in the world pieces. So, we bumped into an article called How Do You Prove You’re a Jew? … Read More
The Attorney General of Israel has interpreted their adoption law to read...
Israel’s Attorney General, Menachem Mazuz, has decreed that same-sex couples should be allowed to adopt kids. This is a big step for a fairly conservative country. Essentially, there was a sticky bit of language centered around the term “ben zug.” Ben zug basically means partner in the relationship sense. It is not gender-specific nor is it specific to any sexual orientation, according to AG Mazuz’s interpretation. This is sort of one of those watershed moments that sort of goes unnoticed though. Of the 270 (not a typo, two hundred and seventy) kids … Read More
A distant, but not forgotten, love comes back to haunt a now-married writer.
During college I studied abroad in a place I didn't belong, and met one of the most unforgettable loves of my life.
Just after the Oslo Accords in 1993, the Middle East was more peaceful than it was before or has been since, and my interest in studying historical perspectives on western religions led me to sign on as the only non-Jewish student in a Boston University program to Israel. Weeks before embarking on this journey, a family blow-out over my new and rather conspicuous tattoo left me feeling disowned for no good reason, and I arrived in a strange … Read More
